Praudhamanorama p232

p232

that on account of this statement, an entity of such kind is unfit to be addressed: that is only superficial; because, just like words such as sannikṛṣṭa ('contiguous'), there is no obstacle to idam and the rest also conveying the person addressed. And because an entity, even though remote, is frequently seen to be addressed when brought into presence by the mind. And so [says] Bhaṭṭi: "'Where are you, having abandoned [me], O fair-browed one?'—thus he wailed much."
[On "anāpyakaḥ" (7.2.112)]: it is an abbreviatory designation (pratyāhāra). The meaning is: but not the suffix ṭāp, because of the qualifier "vibhaktau" ('when a case ending follows').
[On] "not being a modification of the reduplication (abhyāsa)": by this, in the substitution of i by "bhṛñām it" and "arti-pipartyoś ca", the rule that an operation applies to the final letter (alo 'ntyavidhi) certainly applies. [Thus:] bibharti, piparti.
If it is objected: would not an-ādeśa apply because of being subsequent to the substitute smai? In anticipation of this, he says: "because of being constant (nityatva), smai for ṅe [applies]".